Time To Start Growing The Economic Cake

New Zealanders’
preoccupation with how to divide up the current economic
cake – rather than on how to grow it – is one of the
major reasons why we have done so poorly in terms of
productivity over recent years, ACT founder and candidate
Sir Roger Douglas said today.

“There are better ways to
help struggling families – such as targeted tax cuts –
and removing GST on food will simply add to business
compliance costs and reduce the nation’s wealth,” Sir
Roger said.

“New Zealanders have a fundamental choice to
make: stay as we are and slide further down the list of
nations in terms of per capita income; or adopt the growth
policies advocated by ACT which, in time, would enable us to
catch up to Australian income levels – that is, an
increase of between $300 and $400 a week.

“If New
Zealanders continue to reward politicians who put up phoney
solutions, then that is all we will ever see. Decent
policies and growth will only come about if Kiwis vote for
the Parties that put up real solutions.

“ACT is the only
Party trying to make New Zealand wealthy – meanwhile all
the other Parties make it poorer as they argue over who’s
going to get what slice of the economic cake,” Sir Roger
said.

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